This recent Pinnacle Weapon debacle revealed two key things. The first being the ridiculousness of the controversy around cores. Now there are players running around with literally thousands of cores and no longer subject to the idiocy that is grinding cores to be able to infuse what you want when you want. But the big thing this issue showcases is the hypocrisy of Bungie. THIS WAS STOPPED IN A MATTER OF HOURS. Bungie’s response was so fast that it was obliterated before most players had even heard of it, much less utilized it. And now to fix the problem and make Pinnacles claimable again? It’ll likely be days if not weeks. All I need is 400 precision kills to get my Oxygen, I’ve done the strikes and the orbs. So much for that huh. Glad I already got my Recluse, but I’m not even close to Delirium. But now there’s no reason to make any kind of push for Delirium because who knows when I’ll be able to claim it. Bungie is SO QUICK to stop players from using exploits to circumvent their terrible economy. And yet when it comes to big things like OG Laser Tag when Prometheus was “bugged,” Slowva Bomb dodgeball in Mayhem when you could spam infinite Novas, guitar error coding in Last Wish, Like a Diamond not being awarded properly, and other major game breaking issues that completely ruin things, Bungie takes weeks if not MONTHS to fix these issues. Bungie’s attention to cores is utterly ridiculous. All the “data” they’re gathering and monitoring constantly is now flawed because there’s players who managed to get 3,000 cores in a couple hours. A player gets their hands on a few too many cores and the worst that happens is they can actually afford to infuse whenever they want and they have a lot of Masterwork guns. Big deal. And yet Bungie is so fast that it was done away with before people even realized. Not PATCHED. Stopped. And yet the things I’ve mentioned damage GAMEPLAY. Prometheus and Nova spam murdered crucible for a week or so. Nova spam made Mayhem unplayable, and while Laser Tag was fun once everyone had Prometheus from Xur, the first few days before that anyone who had a Prometheus was unkillable. And just recently. Guitar error codes have occurred since September of 2018 and have now been “patched” (they STILL HAPPEN) in March 2019. That’s ALMOST SEVEN. MONTHS. This prevented people from getting a TITLE for crying out loud. Some people managed but it was infuriating beyond belief. Same thing with Like a Diamond, this was a quicker fix than Last Wish but still took 3 months, regardless. Bungie responds in hours to a core abuse exploit. Patch is going to be days if not weeks. I bet next reset is going to be the patch date. Hours to stop core abuse, seven months to fix a broken freaking Raid. Ridiculous. I don’t think Bungie’s reaction would be so quick in coming if not for a hidden agenda. The idea of having thousands of cores means that they can infuse whatever, whenever, and they’ll have a larger arsenal of Masterwork Weapons. This is not a game threatening issue, most people at max light and already use Masterwork weapons. There’s no danger to the game with people abusing this. However there’s plenty of danger to Bungie’s agenda. Particularly their false grind they’re using to artificially extend play time, and the data that they’ve “been collecting and monitoring closely on how many cores players have, how many they earn playing, and how many they spend.” That “data” is now worthless because there’s are players that acquired thousands in a couple hours. Bungie reacted at the speed they did not because this threatened the game world. It threatened their plan for the players. A number of the community got out of their choke hold so they had to double down and clench their fists as tight as possible.